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The Texas Repository serves for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Texas. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Texas's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access 1839 Tex. Gen. Laws 172, An Act Concerning Slaves, § 6(General Publisher, 1839)Prohibited any “slave” from carrying firearms or weapons without the consent of his master.Item Open Access 1839 Tex. Gen. Laws 214, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Austin, § 7(General Publisher, 1839)That the Mayor and Counsel shall have full power and authority ... to prevent gunpowder being stored within the city and suburbs in such quantities as to endanger the public safety. . .Item Open Access 1836 Tex. Gen. Laws 54-55, An Act to Provide for the National Defense by Organizing the Militia, § 1.(General Publisher, 1836)That every citizen so enrolled and notified, shall within ten days thereafter provide himself with a good musket, a sufficient bayonet and belt, six flints, knapsack and cartridge box, with twenty-four suitable ball cartridgesItem Open Access 1871 Tex. Gen. Laws 14, An Act To Incorporate The Town Of Millican, County of Brazos, Art. 10(General Publisher, 1871)That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to fire any pistol, rifle, shot gun, or other kind of firearms, within the limits of the town of Millican, and any person violating this act shall be fined not less than five nor more then twenty-five dollars...Item Open Access Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, and All Ordinances in Force to April 2d, 1872, at 94, art. 418, § 26. (1873)(General Publisher, 1872)Every keeper of a pistol or rifle gallery, a tax of twenty-five dollarsItem Open Access 1879 Tex. Crim. Stat. tit. IX, Ch. 4, Art. 320(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited carry of a pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of a knife manufactured and sold for the purposes of offense and defense into any church, religious assembly, school room, or other place where persons are assembled for amusement or for educational or scientific purposes, or into any circus, show, or public exhibition of any kind, or into a ball-room. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars and shall forfeit the weapon.Item Open Access Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, 1873-1884, at 113-14, An Ordinance defining and punishing affrays and Disturbances of the Peace, § 2 (1885)(General Publisher, 1879)If any person shall go into any public place, or into or near any private house, or along any public street or highway near any private house, and shall use loud and vociferous, or obscene, vulgar, or indecent language, or swear or curse, or expose his person, or rudely display any pistol or other deadly weapon in such public place, or upon such public street or highway, or near such private house, in a manner calculated to disturb the inhabitants thereof, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1876 Tex. Gen. Laws 29, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Galveston And to Grant A New Charter, Tit. 7, Art. II, § 108(General Publisher, 1876)To direct, control and prohibit the keeping and management of houses, or any building for the storing of gun-powder and other combustible, explosive or dangerous materials, within the city; to regulate the keeping and conveying of the same, and the use of candles and other lights in stables and other like houses.Item Open Access Tex. Const. of 1876, Art. I, § 23(General Publisher, 1876)Declared every citizen to have the right to bear arms in defense of themselves or the state, but the legislature shall have power to regulate the bearing of arms to prevent crime.Item Open Access 2 A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING THE LAWS IN FORCE, AND THE REPEALED LAWS ON WHICH RIGHTS REST, FROM 1754 TO 1874, at 1323 (George W. Paschal ed., 4th ed. 1874).(General Publisher, 1874)Prohibited any person from carrying a pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured and sold for offense or defense into any church, religious assembly, school room, other place where persons are assembled for amusement, educational, or scientific purposes, or into a ball-room, social party, or social gathering, or any election precinct on the day of election, or places of muster or other public duty, or to any other public assembly. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not les than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars with forfeiture of the weapon on first offense. Further offenses may also be imprisoned not more than ninety days.